Despite holding the most powerful job on the planet, a U.S. president is still a human being and should be afforded the leisure and personal time to maintain some semblance of life balance. A happy president is surely a better president.

Also, there’s some truth to the trope that business often gets done on the golf course.

The White House has remained mostly silent about how Trump spends his time at his golf resorts and with whom he golfs when he does hit the links, leaving infrequent details to come from social media or rare glimpses that reporters are afforded.

Press Sec. Sanders: Pres. Trump has used golf to develop "deeper and better relationships with members of Congress…we've had an extremely successful 2017, and some of that's due to the relationship building he was able to do there." https://t.co/NkJuIoh4fPpic.twitter.com/nzUUVH5c6g

“I think it’s the press that has an issue with his time on his course,” Sanders said. “The president’s extremely proud of the accomplishments we had during 2017.”

Sanders went on to tout the White House’s dubious narrative of “one of the most successful first years in office” while refusing to address a lack of transparency about how the most powerful man in the world holding a democratically elected office spends so much of his time.

Trump’s proliferous golf habit is made the more laughable in the context of his constant criticism of his predecessor, President Barack Obama, who golfed less frequently and did not hide from the American public when he did.

Can you believe that,with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf.Worse than Carter